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Statement of Principles for Health Care Journalists

Gary Schwitzer*

1 University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Citation: Schwitzer G (2005) Statement of Principles for Health Care Journalists. PLoS Med 2(3): e84. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0020084

Published: March 29, 2005

Copyright: © 2005 Gary Schwitzer. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Competing interests: The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

E-mail: schwitz@umn.edu

In “The Commercialisation of Medical and Scientific Reporting” [1], Caulfield calls on journalists to ask researchers about the nature of their funding and the financial relationship of the researchers to the sponsor. This is just one principle addressed in a much broader “Statement of Principles” I wrote this past year for the Association of Health Care Journalists (http://www.ahcj.umn.edu). The statement is available online [2].

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  1. Caulfield T (2004) The commercialisation of medical and scientific reporting. PLoS Med 1: e38. Find this article online
  2. (2004) Statement of principles. Minneapolis (Minnesota): Association of Health Care Journalists. Available: http://www.ahcj.umn.edu/files/AHCJ_princ​iples.pdf . Accessed 9 February 2005.
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